Live NMEA import

[imi]

James R Glasgow said:

I would appreciate a feature for JOSM that would download gps points directly from my gps attatched to my computer. then we could add the nodes, segments, and ways while someone else is driving. I think I could do a batter job at getting the street names this way.

[Shaun McDonald <shaunmcdonald131@…>]

I presume this is meant to be live NMEA import rather than just importing a static NMEA file.

If anyone knows how to directly connect to a GPS device from Java, please comment here.

[mario.schroeder@…]

I have done that before with a small usb device during my first job in Berlin. The device was mapped to a serial port. When I remember right, I used the additional java.comm package which allows you to connect to a serial port. The data were imported on realtime. I could do this job!

[imi]

Frederick Ramm (frederik@remote org) has already done some live-import - stuff within the plugin "livegps". You may want to contact him.

[christof dallermassl]

the livegps plugin from frederik solves this problem